Since most of you are more experienced than I am with Pokémon in general . . . I thought I'd toss this out for discussion;

There are a few items which seem to me to only have negative effects (or no effect) on a Pokémon. I'm wondering if y'all are aware of positive effects these might have, or even any good use for them (aside from selling them)?

I'm wondering if a couple of these might be needed for me to give to some NPC to get something else (such as a TM, HM, or some "service")? I seem to recall in one previous version that the Heart Scales were needed for the move tutor and the shards could be traded to some guy on an island for certain other items. But the Iron Ball and Lagging Tail really have me stumped, why would one give these to a Pokémon when they seem to only have harmful effects?

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well, mushrooms don't do crap on ss, for sure. but in d/p/pt, you can give them to the move tutor. doesn't dragon scale also boost dragon-type moves?? i always just sell iron balls (had a crapload on diamond), and lagging tail is, as Sion9 stated, only for trick room teams.

& also, I should clarify that Mushrooms are used for the Move Tutor in the Gen 3 games which are Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald & in DPPt & beyond, the move tutor asks for Heart Scales in exchange for services...so...ingame all those items have uses except for Mushrooms which you should just sell(though...) & the Iron Ball which maybe in the Battle Frontier has some stradegetic use but other then that, it's a no go...

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I'd just like to say that the programmers don't just put in items that have no effect in the game. That would be pointless, flame-bringing, and just a waste of space on the game card. But it is true that some items don't work when you send them from genIII to genIV games, as exemplified above.

True PowerPeanut - however, even the otherwise useless nugget is a good source of income. But, as I had mentioned earlier, the items I was asking about only seemed to me to be mostly useless. To me, almost everything else you pick up or are given in the game give some kind of help to a pokemon who holds it (or can be used to evolve a pokemon). But a couple of the ones I'd mentioned (iron ball & lagging tail) appeared to me to be pretty useless.

Oddly enough, I used "fling" (as suggested) with the iron ball & it did do a fair amount of damage. Unfortunetly, I didn't get it back. LOL

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True PowerPeanut - however, even the otherwise useless nugget is a good source of income. But, as I had mentioned earlier, the items I was asking about only seemed to me to be mostly useless. To me, almost everything else you pick up or are given in the game give some kind of help to a pokemon who holds it (or can be used to evolve a pokemon). But a couple of the ones I'd mentioned (iron ball & lagging tail) appeared to me to be pretty useless.

Oddly enough, I used "fling" (as suggested) with the iron ball & it did do a fair amount of damage. Unfortunetly, I didn't get it back. LOL

Here's some information:
When you use one-use only items on Wireless, Wi-Fi and Battle Frontier battles, they will return once the battle is finished. Don't be discouraged from using them for fear of them disappearing.

Here's some information:
When you use one-use only items on Wireless, Wi-Fi and Battle Frontier battles, they will return once the battle is finished. Don't be discouraged from using them for fear of them disappearing.

Ah - alas! I used mine in a battle with some wild critter or other. When the foe Pokémon fainted, I didn't get the iron ball back. (Though, saying I only had one iron ball and now have none, sounds a bit weird . . . )

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I find that Flame Orb is great for guts movesets and Toxic orb for quick feet movesets,( works really well on Ursaring btw). Flame orb can also be Tricked onto Physical sweepers to completely shut them down

Drgaon Scale is an evolutionary item that when you give it to Seadra and u trade it, it evolves into Kingdra. Also, Lagging Tail and Iron Ball provide strategy that can be used to ur advantage if you use Trick.

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